MARKUS KISSLER-PATIG

Brief Bio

Since 2012, I am serving as the Director of the Gemini Observatory.
Gemini is an international parternship between Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile and the United States, with headquarters in Hilo, Hawaii and La Serena, Chile.
The observatory is operating two 8m-class telescopes - one on top of Maunakea in Hawaii, the other on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

Since a few years, I am concentrating on studying the existence and the role of intermediate-mass black holes, and how these link the two topics above.
Our group is mostly observationally driven, but performs more and more simulations on specialised hardware.

Recently, I also became interested in Astrobiology and Exoplanets atmospheres.